I spotted this crawling up the side of my neighbors when I was pulling in my drive yesterday. By the time I got back out with my camera, it had already fallen back down.
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herping from my driveway
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TheFragginDragon
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Beautiful black ratsnake, wish I could come home to those crawling around my place 
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Cool! 
I too would love to come home to find one. The last time I saw one of those was at my Mom's in Maryland. It was wrapped around a basement window. For a moment I thought it was a rope like insulation that had somehow fallen loose. That was until it moved.
It was nice enough to stay around until you got your camera too. Half the time I see something it is gone by the time I get there with my camera. 
I too would love to come home to find one. The last time I saw one of those was at my Mom's in Maryland. It was wrapped around a basement window. For a moment I thought it was a rope like insulation that had somehow fallen loose. That was until it moved. It was nice enough to stay around until you got your camera too.
Half the time I see something it is gone by the time I get there with my camera. 
Utta
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Very nice find! And the second pic is great
polasian
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Nice find, Shane .
Very true! No one ever believes me when I tell them that I saw Bigfoot
.It was nice enough to stay around until you got your camera too.
Very true! No one ever believes me when I tell them that I saw Bigfoot
StrictlyExotics
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Nice. I see it has the rat snake attitude!
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mechnut450
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nice black rat, It makes me miss mine more since she passsed away this past spring. but after 16+ years of age I gues she done good.. I find thebalck rats in the yard all the time ( mainly cause thatwere I release the one I remove from other homes. )